Charlie is our Darwin
To mark Charles Darwin’s 211th birthday, some thoughts on his 1871 classic, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, an unlikely anecdote about a snail, plus all the usual book reviews and links to Darwin-related news stories.
Apollo 11 · Origin of Species · Richard Owen · Charles Lyell · sloths · lice · deaf moths · pregnant lizards · puppy eyes · palaeoanthropology · book reviews · heads on spikes!
In which my head appears on a spike (six times).
How animals and people express emotions, and what this tells us about our ancestry.
A interesting new study lends support to Darwin's suggestion that certain facial expressions might be inherited.